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Josué Martínez de la Puente

Josué Martínez de la Puente

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Animal Science and Veterinary

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46
Citations
5875
World Ranking
803
National Ranking
34

Ecology and Evolution

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46
Citations
5863
World Ranking
4722
National Ranking
151

Overview

Josué Martínez de la Puente is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research intersects multiple domains within medicine, immunology, and microbiology, focusing largely on parasitology, infectious diseases, and ecology.

The scientist's work addresses topics such as viral infections and vectors, bird parasitology and diseases, mosquito-borne diseases and control, vector-borne infectious diseases, malaria research and control, avian ecology and behavior, and insect symbiosis and bacterial influences.

Josué Martínez de la Puente has contributed publications to a range of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Parasites & Vectors
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Scientific Reports
  • Environmental Research
  • Emerging Microbes & Infections

Their recent papers reflect diverse research interests related to vectors and environmental impacts on disease transmission:

  • Environmental drivers, climate change and emergent diseases transmitted by mosquitoes and their vectors in southern Europe: A systematic review (2020, Environmental Research)
  • A Literature Review of Host Feeding Patterns of Invasive Aedes Mosquitoes in Europe (2020, Insects)
  • Implications of diet on mosquito life history traits and pathogen transmission (2021, Environmental Research)
  • Determinants of the current and future distribution of the West Nile virus mosquito vector Culex pipiens in Spain (2020, Environmental Research)
  • Understanding host utilization by mosquitoes: determinants, challenges and future directions (2021, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)

Collaboration is an important aspect of their research career. Josué Martínez de la Puente has frequently co-authored work with:

  • Jordi Figuerola (52 co-authored publications)
  • Ramón C. Soriguer (26 co-authored publications)
  • María José Ruiz-López (18 co-authored publications)
  • Martina Ferraguti (18 co-authored publications)
  • Jesús Veiga (14 co-authored publications)

Their research contributes to expanding knowledge related to the ecology of disease vectors, avian hosts, and the environmental factors influencing pathogen transmission. This includes a multidisciplinary approach integrating aspects of public health, environmental health, behavior, and systematics.

Best Publications

  • Effects of landscape anthropization on mosquito community composition and abundance

    Martina Ferraguti;Josué Martínez-de la Puente;David Roiz;David Roiz;Santiago Ruiz

  • The blood parasite Haemoproteus reduces survival in a wild bird: a medication experiment

    Josué Martínez-de la Puente;Santiago Merino;Gustavo Tomás;Juan Moreno

  • Environmental drivers, climate change and emergent diseases transmitted by mosquitoes and their vectors in southern Europe: A systematic review.

    Silvia Brugueras;Beatriz Fernández-Martínez;Josué Martínez-de la Puente;Jordi Figuerola

  • Experimental evidence that egg color indicates female condition at laying in a songbird

    Juan Moreno;Elisa Lobato;Judith Morales;Santiago Merino

  • Understanding West Nile virus ecology in Europe: Culex pipiens host feeding preference in a hotspot of virus emergence.

    Annapaola Rizzoli;Luca Bolzoni;Elizabeth Anna Chadwick;Gioia Capelli

  • On the specificity of avian blood parasites: revealing specific and generalist relationships between haemosporidians and biting midges

    Josué Martínez de la Puente;Javier Martínez;Juan Rivero de Aguilar;Juan Rivero de Aguilar;Jessica Herrero

  • Evidence for the signaling function of egg color in the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca

    Juan Moreno;Judith Morales;Elisa Lobato;Santiago Merino

  • Effect of blood meal digestion and DNA extraction protocol on the success of blood meal source determination in the malaria vector Anopheles atroparvus

    Josué Martínez de la Puente;Santiago Ruiz;Ramón C. Soriguer;Jordi Figuerola

  • Ecological determinants of avian malaria infections: An integrative analysis at landscape, mosquito and vertebrate community levels

    Martina Ferraguti;Josué Martínez-de la Puente;Staffan Bensch;David Roiz

  • Avian Plasmodium in Culex and Ochlerotatus Mosquitoes from Southern Spain: Effects of Season and Host-Feeding Source on Parasite Dynamics.

    Martina Ferraguti;Josué Martínez de la Puente;Joaquín Muñoz;Joaquín Muñoz;David Roiz

  • Fur or feather? Feeding preferences of species of Culicoides biting midges in Europe

    Josué Martínez de la Puente;Jordi Figuerola;Ramón C. Soriguer

  • Impact of blood parasites on immunoglobulin level and parental effort: a medication field experiment on a wild passerine

    G. Tomás;S. Merino;J. Moreno;J. Morales

  • Are eggshell spottiness and colour indicators of health and condition in blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus

    Josué Martínez-de la Puente;Santiago Merino;Juan Moreno;Gustavo Tomás

  • A restriction site to differentiate Plasmodium and Haemoproteus infections in birds: on the inefficiency of general primers for detection of mixed infections

    J. Martínez;J. Martínez-De La Puente;J. Herrero;S. Del Cerro

  • Corticosterone metabolites in blue tit and pied flycatcher droppings: effects of brood size, ectoparasites and temperature.

    Elisa Lobato;Santiago Merino;Juan Moreno;Judith Morales;Judith Morales

  • Culex pipiens forms and urbanization: effects on blood feeding sources and transmission of avian Plasmodium

    Josué Martínez de la Puente;Martina Ferraguti;Santiago Ruiz;David Roiz;David Roiz

  • Carotenoid-based plumage colouration is associated with blood parasite richness and stress protein levels in blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus).

    Sara del Cerro;Santiago Merino;Josué Martínez-de la Puente;Elisa Lobato

  • A Literature Review of Host Feeding Patterns of Invasive Aedes Mosquitoes in Europe.

    Sonia Cebrián-Camisón;Josué Martínez de la Puente;Jordi Figuerola

  • Implications of diet on mosquito life history traits and pathogen transmission.

    Laura Carvajal-Lago;María José Ruiz-López;Jordi Figuerola;Josué Martínez de la Puente;Josué Martínez de la Puente

  • Avian malaria parasites in the last supper: identifying encounters between parasites and the invasive Asian mosquito tiger and native mosquito species in Italy

    Josué Martínez de la Puente;Joaquín Muñoz;Gioia Capelli;Fabrizio Montarsi

  • On the study of the transmission networks of blood parasites from SW Spain: diversity of avian haemosporidians in the biting midge Culicoides circumscriptus and wild birds

    Martina Ferraguti;Josué Martínez de la Puente;Santiago Ruiz;Ramón C. Soriguer

  • Determinants of abundance and effects of blood-sucking flying insects in the nest of a hole-nesting bird.

    Gustavo Tomás;Santiago Merino;Josué Martínez-de la Puente;Juan Moreno

  • Nest Construction Rate and Stress in Female Pied FlycatchersFicedula hypoleuca

    Juan Moreno;Javier Martínez;Consuelo Corral;Elisa Lobato

  • Extraordinary MHC class II B diversity in a non-passerine, wild bird: the Eurasian Coot Fulica atra (Aves: Rallidae)

    Miguel Alcaide;Joaquín Muñoz;Joaquín Muñoz;Josué Martínez de la Puente;Ramón C. Soriguer

  • Nest size and aromatic plants in the nest as sexually selected female traits in blue tits

    Gustavo Tomás;Santiago Merino;Josué Martínez-de la Puente;Juan Moreno

  • Pre-laying nutrition mediates maternal effects on offspring immune capacity and growth in the pied flycatcher

    Juan Moreno;Elisa Lobato;Judith Morales;Santiago Merino

  • Urbanization and blood parasite infections affect the body condition of wild birds.

    Jéssica Jiménez-Peñuela;Martina Ferraguti;Josué Martínez-de la Puente;Ramón Soriguer

  • Effects of parental effort on blood stress protein HSP60 and immunoglobulins in female blue tits: a brood size manipulation experiment.

    Santiago Merino;Juan Moreno;Gustavo Tomás;Javier Martínez

  • Assessing the Effects of Climate on Host-Parasite Interactions: A Comparative Study of European Birds and Their Parasites

    Anders Pape Møller;Santiago Merino;Juan José Soler;Anton Antonov

  • Experimental evidence for the role of calcium in eggshell pigmentation pattern and breeding performance in Blue Tits Cyanistes caeruleus

    Vicente García-Navas;Vicente García-Navas;Juan José Sanz;Juan José Sanz;Santiago Merino;Josué Martínez–de la Puente

  • Mosquito community influences West Nile virus seroprevalence in wild birds: implications for the risk of spillover into human populations.

    Josué Martínez-de la Puente;Martina Ferraguti;Santiago Ruiz;David Roiz;David Roiz

Frequent Co-Authors

Jordi Figuerola
Jordi Figuerola Spanish National Research Council
Ramón C. Soriguer
Ramón C. Soriguer Spanish National Research Council
Santiago Merino
Santiago Merino Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
Gustavo Tomás
Gustavo Tomás Spanish National Research Council
Judith Morales
Judith Morales Spanish National Research Council
Elisa Lobato
Elisa Lobato University of Porto
Javier Martínez
Javier Martínez University of Alcalá
Juan José Soler
Juan José Soler Spanish National Research Council
Juan José Sanz
Juan José Sanz Spanish National Research Council
Magdalena Ruiz-Rodríguez
Magdalena Ruiz-Rodríguez University of Granada

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